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Re:Stock options are complicated by ar15saveslives on Monday March 06, 2017 @05:06PM (#13806484)
When you exercise your SO, you need to pay taxes, based on current price of shares, even if you don't sell them right away. SO is a joke in Canada.
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Re:Stock options are complicated by sokoloff on Monday March 06, 2017 @07:45PM (#13807445)
I fail to see how that's different from the US. Stock option exercises of vested shares are taxable here, too.
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